Derry O'Sullivan

Derry O'Sullivan
Portrait of Derry O`Sullivan by Reginald Gray, Paris, 2002
Born	Bantry, Cork, Ireland
Occupation	Poet, professor
Language	Irish/French/English
Nationality	Irish

Derry O'Sullivan (born 1944 in Cork, Ireland) is an Irish poet, writing in the Irish language. He has been living in Paris for many years and is a teacher of English at the Sorbonne (University of Paris), at ISEP and at the Catholic university, l'Institut catholique. He has won four literary awards from the Irish Language Academy, Oireachtas na Gaeilge . His publisher is COISCEIM in Dublin. His works have been translated into English and French and several of them can be consulted on the Harvard Library Hollis catalogue. He has published one collection in French in Quebec. His friend the Irish artist Reginald Gray has designed the covers for a number of O'Sullivan's books.

References

• "The Cambridge History of Irish Literature", Volume 2, page 349. published 2006......"A shortlist of the most notable among the (re)emergent voices (in contemporary Irish language poetry) might include...Derry O'Sullivan. O'Sullivan's technical ingenuity and agitated intelligence are such that they constantly threaten to outrun his linguistic ability; his elegy for a stillborn child, "Marbhghin: Glaoch:Ar Liombo", is one of the most achingly beautiful Irish poems of the twentieth century".........
• Poetry Ireland Review. Number 102. ......"O'Sullivans language has tremendous range and one would suspect that if Irish were to become a language of Paris it might be spoken as O'Sullivan writes it ".....

External links

• http://www.irishwriters-online.com/

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